tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21999805.post3805346303241041393..comments2024-03-27T06:25:29.002-05:00Comments on Anecdotal Evidence: `I Am Ready to Depart'Patrick Kurphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08436175583386298032noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21999805.post-7466073357789710542012-12-01T15:37:52.048-06:002012-12-01T15:37:52.048-06:00Thanks, Patrick, and thanks to Robert Pinsky for L...Thanks, Patrick, and thanks to Robert Pinsky for Landor's true epigram.Helen Pinkertonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21999805.post-23791442674539556502012-12-01T07:53:47.760-06:002012-12-01T07:53:47.760-06:00There is the comedian in Anthony Burgess's Ear...There is the comedian in Anthony Burgess's <i>Earthly Powers</i> who concludes his reading of the epitaph by identifying Art as the delivery boy at the corner grocer's.<br /><br />I have read a few of Landor's poems, mostly in anthologies. Henry Adams, reading his way through Landor on a ship traveling to the South Pacific, did not enjoy him: "Landor drives one to mania by his commonplace classicism, which is doubly trying, because it is both dogmatic and second-rate." (Letter to Elizabeth Cameron, 26 August, 1891)<br /><br />Georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14819154529261482038noreply@blogger.com